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I think from the interview it was the Murphy wicket he was referring to, Stokes then kept him on

That's alright, it's two and a half years until we're back down there

I think the premise was that the bulk of the team would remain largely intact for that series (bar probably losing Anderson) but the next home series is far enough down the line that a significant change would have been likely.

There was an excellent piece during the rain break on Monday afternoon where Dan Norcross, Alastair Cook, Henry Moran and Andy Zaltzman attempted to pick an Ashes squad for 2027 (all purely hypothetical), Rew was pretty much unanimously the choice for keeper.

I worry about his fitness

This is a bit special

Ali is easiest, I have high hopes for Rehan Ahmed and Leach until he’s ready. I would expect the seamers in India to be Tongue, Wood and Anderson (reversing it). Longer term there’s Sam Curran, Cook at Essex (not that one), Saqib Mahmood, Olly Stone, Brydon Carse and some others knocking about.

Recently, every Ashes series has felt (for England) like an ending. This one feels like a beginning for this team. Only regret is it wasn’t next summer, reckon another year of Bazball tweaking and we’d have had them.

Away Ashes series wins; Ajmal Shahzad - 1 Steve Smith - 0 David Warner - 0

Win a series in England? You’ll never sing that!

Get Broad on!

Three down since I finished work, not a bad Monday afternoon

Not gonna lie, but emotional about this

Australia bowled all day and won’t even get to the new ball, disgraceful really

263-9 highest score to win at the Oval in a test (the Gilbert Jessop game 1902)

Poor shot in the end

Root got the only ball that kept low last week and the only one to have done so here, imagine how good he’d be if he was lucky with it

The really gutting thing about this series is it could, maybe should, have been 5-0. Looking good to win this (at this moment) and won at Headingley. Old Trafford we would have won had the weather behaved. Edgbaston we choked. Lord’s is the anomaly but we should have got much closer 1st innings...